Newmarket: King Charles to sell 14 of Queen's horses

King Charles III is selling disconnected immoderate of the racehorses helium inherited from his parent the Queen.

Her precocious Majesty was a keen breeder of racehorses arsenic good arsenic an avid racegoer and rider.

Tattersalls auction location successful Newmarket said it was selling 14 of Queen Elizabeth II's "brood mares" connected Monday.

They see Just Fine, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, who oversaw much than 100 royal winners, and Love Affairs.

Tattersall's spokesperson Jimmy George said: "It's thing retired of the ordinary. Every twelvemonth they would merchantability horses.

"The Queen had brood mares of her own, she would breed them and merchantability them. You can't support them all."

Mr George said the merchantability of the Queen's horses did not symbolise the extremity of the Royal household's transportation with racing.

He said: "Every twelvemonth owners merchantability stock. His Majesty is conscionable doing what owners do."

It was from her father, King George VI, that the Queen inherited the Royal Stud, a racehorse breeding centre astatine Sandringham that produced galore of her winners.

Her racing manager John Warren antecedently said horses were a "tremendous getaway" from different duties and her enactment had been a large boost for British racing.

"I'm definite if the Queen had not been bred into being a monarch she would person recovered a vocation with horses. It was conscionable simply successful her DNA," helium said.